Battus philenor
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 7:00 pm
The Battus philenor have been out in amazing numbers in North TX for the past several weeks, especially following the first heavy spring rain here, earlier this month. I can't recall ever having seen such an impressively large number of philenor in past years. We had two unusually hard freezes in Nov / Dec, but it doesn't appear to affected their population.
A great memory from my younger days was seeing the blooming mimosa trees full of philenor, cresphontes and glaucus. Those particular trees are now long gone, but I can still witness the same spectacle every summer, from the new mimosas that have grown up on my own property and in neighbor's yards. I can see from YouTube, that others have had the same experience -
A great memory from my younger days was seeing the blooming mimosa trees full of philenor, cresphontes and glaucus. Those particular trees are now long gone, but I can still witness the same spectacle every summer, from the new mimosas that have grown up on my own property and in neighbor's yards. I can see from YouTube, that others have had the same experience -